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Lot 439
A Fine German Chiselled Steel Sword-Guard Probably By Gottfried Leygebe, Mid-17th Century
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,187.50 inc. premium
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Probably By Gottfried Leygebe, Mid-17th Century
Probably By Gottfried Leygebe, Mid-17th Century
From a 'transitional' small-sword, comprising vertically recurved quillons formed in the round as unicorn forequarters each issuing from the mouth of a monster, inner-guard formed as a unicorn in the round goring one of the monsters, larger outer-guard en suite, standing over a dragon and impaling it through its mouth, the dragon's tail curled around the unicorns legs
11.5 cm. wide
11.5 cm. wide
Footnotes
In style and workmanship this closely resembles the guard of the only signed hilt by Leygebe, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. M59-1947)
Gottfried Leygebe was born in 1630 at Freystadt in Silesia. After working in Nuremberg he was appointed Medallist, Coiner and Sculptor to the Elector of Brandenburg. He died in Berlin in 1668
See A. Bruhn, Der Schwertfeger Gottfried Leygebe, 1945; J.F. Hayward, Swords & Daggers, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1963, pl. 19; and A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier & Small-Sword, 1460-1820, 1980, pp. 327-28




